12-step recovery program

The Twelve Steps were originated by the
founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as a way of achieving the "spiritual
experience" that those individuals believed was the key to lasting
recovery from the disease of alcoholism. With the permission of AA, SCA has
adapted the Twelve Steps for recovery from the disease of sexual
compulsion.
Click here to read the Twelve
Steps. Click
here
to read SCA members' experiences with working each of the Twelve Steps.

The founders of Alcoholics Anonymous
realized early in the history of that fellowship that the only way
recovery can be achieved is if members can tell their stories honestly and
openly with other members, people who share the same disease. The
willingness required for this level of honesty and openness comes from
anonymity, or a lack of differentiation based on one's life circumstances
or social position, and for members to trust that the fellowship has only
their best interests at heart. The Twelve Traditions were written as
a way of insuring that the recovery of members is the only business of an
anonymous 12-step fellowship. Click here
to read SCA's Twelve Traditions, which are adapted from those of
Alcoholics Anonymous. Click
here
to read SCA members' experiences with working each of the Twelve
Traditions. Click here to learn more
about how the 12 Traditions are applied to SCA as a fellowship.

SCA has developed tools that
help us to get started in recovery and to remind us of "the basics" once
our recovery has matured. The tools are meetings, the telephone,
sponsorship, literature, the Twelve Steps, prayer and meditation, a sexual
recovery plan, abstention (partial or total), socializing, dating, the
slogans, service, and writing. Click here to
read about them in more detail.
Click here to
read SCA
members' experiences working with each of these tools.

Most SCA members have found that
creating a solid sexual
recovery plan was singularly helpful to putting recovery on the right
track. Click
here
to read SCA members' experiences with writing sexual recovery
plans.

A "slip" occurs when we engage in
behaviors from which we had planned to abstain. A number of SCA
members shared their experiences with slips, having them, avoiding them,
getting back to recovery after one. Click here
to read about their experiences, in a section reprinted from SCA's
Little Blue Book.

The following section of the SCA
website discusses a key
tool of the recovery program--meetings. It will consider how to find
a meeting and what to expect once you have found one.